The one change that worked: my husband and I created a simple and life-changing parenting rota
Like many couples, my husband and I bickered over who would do what and who did more. We came up with a radical solution It
Like many couples, my husband and I bickered over who would do what and who did more. We came up with a radical solution It was when my second child was born in 2021 that I realised I needed a new system for parenting. We were coming out of lockdown, and I was tired and overwhelmed.
During the pandemic, my husband and I had built our own mini unit in the UK, as our families lived in the US. I had decided to start my own literary agency as soon as my daughter was old enough to start nursery at six months. It wasnât ideal timing, but I wanted to start as soon as possible.
I approached finding a parenting system the way I think many women of my generation do, with the same intensity that we would have approached a school dissertation. I decided to crowdsource my research: I watched videos of home-schooling mums in the US demonstrating their morning routines, I read every parenting book I could, I listened to podcasters interviewing mothers who seemingly âhad it allâ, and listened to others who argued that âhaving it allâ was impossible.
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